Athothis : a satire on modern medicine / by Thomas C. Minor.
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CHAPTER XI.
IN WHICH THE SPIRITS TAKE A RIDE BEHIND AN OLD
FASHIONED PHAETON AND OVERHEAR A CONVERSATION
BETWEEN A RURAL PRECEPTOR AND HIS STUDENT.
ELOW, lay a winding road traversing a quietly
h picturesque country, with long stretches of
meadow land alternating with elevated knolls,
on which were handsome farm-houses and capa-
cious barns. Cattle and sheep were browsing over innu-
merable pastures, and the whole landscape betokened the
presence of a rich agricultural and stock raising com-
munity.
"What fertile land!" said Athothis, admiringly.
"It reminds me of the Nile homes in the palmy days
of the first dynasty, when Egypt was truly a land of
milk and honey, and these black men working in the fields
are perhaps the descendants of those of our African slaves
who labored under King Pepi in the eleventh dynasty."
"'Tis indeed a rich farming country!" exclaimed
Paulus Androcydes, proudly. " This is the South-
land, where they still live the easy patriarchal lives of
their forefathers, amid lowing herds and bleating flocks ;
where the warm sunshine always smiles and the kindly
earth yields up a never failing crop."
" Yet, even in this mundane Paradise, they have sick-
ness, observed Athothis ; " for, I notice on the highway
immediately under us, an antique looking doctor's vehicle.
Let us descend, and, like mischievous boys have done from
the earliest dynasties, steal a ride ! I see that the phae-
ton has two occupants."